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"For the price of a movie ticket and a handful of popcorn, a reader can have a copy of Dr. Marie Curie's 1904 doctoral dissertation (English translation). This is not a typical dissertation, of course. For this research, she, her husband, and Henri Becquerel (her mentor) shared the Nobel prize in Physics in 1903 ... recommended for the historical significance, the interesting presentation of the results, and example of outstanding research under challenging conditions."--Florida Scientist, No. 1 2003 This volume reproduces the celebrated scientist's doctoral thesis, in which she proved beyond all doubt that radium is a chemical element. This work served as the prelude to Marie Curie's receipt of the 1903 Nobel Prize in physics, which she shared with her husband, Pierre Curie, and her mentor, Henri Becquerel. Here, Curie describes her methods of investigation and their results: establishing the atomic character of the radioactivity found in the compounds of uranium and thorium; the extraction from pitchblende of polonium and radium; the isolation of pure radium chloride; and the determination of the accurate atomic weight of radium. She also discusses her experimentation with the electric, photographic, luminous, heat, and color effects of radioactivity.
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"For the price of a movie ticket and a handful of popcorn, a reader can have a copy of Dr. Marie Curie's 1904 doctoral dissertation (English translation). This is not a typical dissertation, of course. For this research, she, her husband, and Henri Becquerel (her mentor) shared the Nobel prize in Physics in 1903 ... recommended for the historical significance, the interesting presentation of the results, and example of outstanding research under challenging conditions."--Florida Scientist, No. 1 2003 This volume reproduces the celebrated scientist's doctoral thesis, in which she proved beyond all doubt that radium is a chemical element. This work served as the prelude to Marie Curie's receipt of the 1903 Nobel Prize in physics, which she shared with her husband, Pierre Curie, and her mentor, Henri Becquerel. Here, Curie describes her methods of investigation and their results: establishing the atomic character of the radioactivity found in the compounds of uranium and thorium; the extraction from pitchblende of polonium and radium; the isolation of pure radium chloride; and the determination of the accurate atomic weight of radium. She also discusses her experimentation with the electric, photographic, luminous, heat, and color effects of radioactivity.
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Original Language: French --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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The object of the present work is the publication of researches which I have been carrying on for more than four years on radioactive bodies. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
radioactive minerals, chloride containing radium, new radioactive bodies, absorbable rays, containing polonium, new radioactive substances, barium lines, undeflected rays, pure radium chloride, ionizing action, radium rays, radium compounds, air between the plates, induced radioactivity, radium salt, limiting radiation, metallic uranium, induction capacity, thorium compounds, radioactive body, barium platinocyanide, radioactive energy, radioactivity induced, thorium oxide, secondary rays Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Radiation of the New Radioactive Substances, Communication of Radioactivity, Substances Initially Inactive, Method of Research New!
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radioactive minerals, chloride containing radium, new radioactive bodies, absorbable rays, containing polonium, new radioactive substances, barium lines, undeflected rays, pure radium chloride, ionizing action, radium rays, radium compounds, air between the plates, induced radioactivity, radium salt, limiting radiation, metallic uranium, induction capacity, thorium compounds, radioactive body, barium platinocyanide, radioactive energy, radioactivity induced, thorium oxide, secondary rays Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Radiation of the New Radioactive Substances, Communication of Radioactivity, Substances Initially Inactive, Method of Research New!
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- On the Origin of Species (Penguin Classics) by Charles Darwin in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- The Descent of Man (Penguin Classics) by Charles Darwin in Front Matter, and Back Matter
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- Obsessive Genius: The Inner World of Marie Curie (Great Discoveries) by Barbara Goldsmith on page 102, page 127, and Back Matter
- Before the Fallout: From Marie Curie to Hiroshima by Diana Preston on page 19, and page 33
- Marie Curie: A Biography (Greenwood Biographies) by Marilyn Bailey Ogilvie in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The World Treasury of Physics, Astronomy, and Mathematics: From Albert Einstein to Stephen W. Hawking and From Annie Dillard to John Updike - an Eloquent ... Than 90 of This Century's Best-Known Writers by Timothy Ferris on page 50, and Back Matter
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